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Akasha is basically the "Root of everything" literally in the Nasuverse. It's the origin and the end, alpha and omega where everything comes from it and everything will go to it when they die and be recycled. Because everything comes from Akasha, it means Akasha also holds every information of everything, including past, present and future.

A person reaching the Root would mean that that person would obtain every knowledge of this world, including the nature of the universe.

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Fate/Zero: This was the tale of a man who, more than anyone else, believed in his ideals, and was driven to despair by them.

Madoka: This was the tale of magical girls whose wishes are pure and by them are driven to despair.

Akasha is basically the "Root of everything" literally in the Nasuverse. It's the origin and the end, alpha and omega where everything comes from it and everything will go to it when they die and be recycled. Because everything comes from Akasha, it means Akasha also holds every information of everything, including past, present and future.

A person reaching the Root would mean that that person would obtain every knowledge of this world, including the nature of the universe.

Hm. Then I kind of wonder why Gilgamesh doesn't share Tokiomi's goal there. I mean, he's always saying everything in the world belongs to him, and it sounds like Akasha is literally everything, so why shouldn't he want to acquire it?

Hm. Then I kind of wonder why Gilgamesh doesn't share Tokiomi's goal there. I mean, he's always saying everything in the world belongs to him, and it sounds like Akasha is literally everything, so why shouldn't he want to acquire it?

Gilgamesh himself explains why he's not interested in Tokiomi's goal in episode 6 (particularly the BD version where he goes into more detail). It's because he's not interested in territories outside of his realm, Akasha being a metaphysical location and all.

Well, being connected to eternity, and the source of all things almost sounds like God to me.

Yes and no, depends on how you define "God". But it's not a God or a heaven in a human sense for sure. To put it in more of Nasu's term, "it is everything, therefore it is nothing". A void where nothing exist yet everything comes from it. It has no personality (except one extremely special case: [ ]) so you could not really say it's God since God has personality. In Nasuverse, human's god is more like a crystallization of human wish/fantasy.

But to really understand about the Root, you need to read Kara no Kyoukai (and some of Tsukihime) very carefully, since the best explanation about it is there.

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Madoka: This was the tale of magical girls whose wishes are pure and by them are driven to despair.

I've always related it more to the Buddhist concept of enlightenment, though it obviously takes a lot its inspiration from the spiritual beliefs found in paganism and modern mysticism. The goal of any magus is to access the akashic records.

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Sometimes I find it hilarious how people struggle with the phrase, "it is everything, it is nothing". It meant exactly what it is, and Nasu called it 'Akasha'.

The Fate Series doesn't explain about Nasuverse very well, it's probably better - as Alaya mentioned - to go through Tsukihime the Visual Novel (Do not watch the anime) to learn more about Akasha, since the Eye of Death Tohno Shiki possessed is directly related to it.

And about Episode 14, well, I don't actually remember Caster getting angry from the original novel after Ryu's death, but it works as well...